Month: August 2008

  • “Why would Barack Obama be friends with someone who bombed the Capitol and is proud of it?”

    Asking such a question can apparently lead to legal trouble. Amazingly (and stupidly, IMO), Barack Obama’s campaign is taking legal action against a group which produced a video asking that question. The video (claims the campaign) is malicious and false. “Barack Obama is friends with Ayers, defending him as, quote, ‘Respectable’ and ‘Mainstream,’” the group’s…

  • Racist Republicans imply that Obama is black!

    When I read about Barack Obama’s half brother living in poverty in a shanty area in Kenya, it occurred to me that the contrast between the two might become an issue in the campaign. After all, imagine what would happen if it were discovered that John McCain had a half brother living in squalor somewhere.…

  • Dave Matthews is the Anti-Christ

    I don’t actually believe in the Anti-Christ, but I’ve just been made aware of a conspiracy so dark and so ugly that I had to share it with the world: Dmitry Medvedev is actually 90s has-been faux-rocker Dave Matthews. My girlfriend pointed it out, and I was stunned to learn the truth! If you’re not…

  • Hide The Message

    James Carville, Bill Clinton’s political strategist and a pretty smart guy, says the Democrats need to get on message. If they can find one. (CNN) — Have the Democrats wasted the first night of the convention? Yes, says Democratic Strategist and CNN contributor James Carville. Speaking on CNN, Carville said the party was too soft…

  • The Rapier Vs The Bludgeon

    Bill Bradley is having a few words about the Obama vs McCain Campaigns and thinks because McCain is not getting much Shrinking Media attention for his campaign videos that McCain is losing the fight. And naturally the conventional media doesn’t link to the ad … Doh! Except 45% of the public get their information from…

  • PUMAs Strike Back

  • The Ad Obama Doesn’t Want You To See

    Senator Obama has some associations he is not proud of. He wants to keep the above ad off TV. So obviously it is time to make the ad go viral. Email it to a friend. Heck. E-Mail it to an enemy. You can never get too much exposure for this sort of thing. Sen. Barack…

  • Obama supports genocide — against black people?

    Considering that Barack Obama has many flaws, and plenty of questionable associations, there are many excellent arguments which can be advanced against his candidacy. However, I don’t think the argument that he advocates genocide against black people is one of them. Jeffrey Kuhner of the Washington Times, however, thinks Obama’s support for abortion is a…

  • Just one more layer to the conspiracy!

    911 Truthers will not buy this, but rationally minded people should: the NIST has had what should be the final say on the collapse of WTC 7. Evan at the Rogues Gallery has an excellent post highlighting the findings along with several sad examples of Truther denial and paranoia. Here’s the link, but for some…

  • Applying “unfair” fairness to unfair comparisons

    Never willing to be ignored, pop star Madonna has entered the political fray to help Obama’s campaign in the most dramatic way possible. At the kickoff to her concert tour in Denver, she graphically compared McCain to Hitler, and Obama to Ghandi: DENVER, COLORADO (AFP) – John McCain’s campaign has hit back at Madonna after…

  • Denver Is Only One Mile High

  • Rachel Hoffman Drug War Casualty

    Part 1 Part 2 Reason Magazine has an early report. Earlier this year, police in Tallahassee, Florida raided the home of college student Rachel Hoffman, who friends say was a bit of a hippie-ish free spirit, and concede that she shared and sold small amounts of marijuana and MDMA within her social circle. Hoffman was…

  • US Flotilla Transits Turkey Arrives In Georgia

    I’m going to go into some detail on the ships which is interesting in and of itself. However, the most interesting part to me is that the warships had to transit Turkey to arrive in the Black Sea. That I believe is the most critical development in the region of Georgia. Turkey is supporting Georgian…

  • Another day, another uncomfortable “association”

    M. Simon sent me an email link to a remarkable (apparently true) revelation about Barack Obama’s Communist mentor Frank Marshall Davis. If this account is correct, in an autobiography the man admitted to sex with a 13 year old. A girl, by the way. While more people would be upset had this happened with a…

  • Defying the forces of shame?

    After having been castigated for being uncertain about exactly how many houses (or how much real estate) his wife owned, John McCain has now spoken up in his own defense. I was delighted to see that he took issue with an idea that there’s something wrong with his wife inheriting property: “…I am blessed and…

  • Obama Chicago Gang Connection?

    I have been looking into a possible Obama – Chicago gang connection. So far all I have to go on is rumor and the knowledge that gangs such as the El Rukns and the Black P. Stone Nation are very big in Chicago politics. Then there is the Jesse Jackson, Jesse Jackson Jr. connection to…

  • Ask The Iraqis

    In a posted opinion piece “Biden pick shows lack of confidence” a pundit suggests that Biden brings a lot to the table in terms of national security credibility. Biden brings a lot to the table. An expert on national security, the Delaware senator voted in 2002 to authorize military intervention in Iraq but has since…

  • Waiting To Cross The Line

    No Quarter has this interesting bit of gossip: I asked a friend who knows someone who has seen the video to Michelle Obama making disparaging remarks about “white” folks. You know, those angry God hugging, gun toting mouth breathers. He wrote me the following: But there is a very strange air about Republican operatives. In…

  • Best way to triangulate McCain’s aisle crossing

    I’m thinking that Obama’s pick of Joe Biden doesn’t go far enough. To really beat McCain, Obama needs to pursue a strategy of annihilation by total triangulation. As I pointed out in a comment to Simon’s post, I’d feel more comfortable if Obama had reached across the aisle and chosen a man with hands-on experience.…

  • Puzzling sign in workers’ paradise

    One of the strangest things about Ann Arbor is the presence of ubiquitous signs like this one: They’re right in my neighborhood, but the reason I didn’t have a photograph of my confused self standing in front of one with Coco is that I don’t have an available photographer right now. But trust me. They…